As a forensic psychiatrist at New York’s leading institution, Dr Lily Dominick has evaluated the mental states of some of the country’s most dangerous psychotics. But the strangely compelling client she interviewed today – a man with no name, accused of the most twisted crime – seems different from the others, despite the two impossible claims he makes. First, that he is more than two hundred years old and personally inspired Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker. Second, that he’s Lily’s father. To discover the truth – behind her client, her mother’s death, herself – Dr Dominick must embark on a journey that will threaten her career, her sanity, and ultimately her life ...